Top 1200 Trying Times Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.

By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing.

I'm trying to put on for my city. I'm trying to do what Drake did for Toronto.

The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

I think there's times where I'm introverted, and there's times where I'm extroverted.

There are times when I will dress up, like tonight for the premiere, but there are times when it doesn't matter. It's not that I think it's fake, but I'm not going to go out of my way to be something that I'm not.

I'm trying to be myself, trying and be aggressive no matter what percentage I'm shooting.

There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

I'm not trying to be Tom Brady. I'm just trying to be Matt Cassel.

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

Strangely enough, as I explored these abandoned malls, I found myself acting like a kid all over again. At times jumping up on to nearby fountain ledges trying to balance myself as I became mesmerized all over again by the futuristic skylights that dangled fearlessly over my head.

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

I'm never home. I miss birthdays. I miss holidays. I miss anniversaries. I miss special moments. I'm not always there for important times, because I'm out on the road trying to make people laugh. I give up my privacy. I give up the ability to walk somewhere and relax.

I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

The Sun' and the 'News of the World' fell in line behind New Labour in the run up to the 1997 election, 'The Times' stayed broadly neutral and 'The Sunday Times' unenthusiastically Tory. After the election, 'The Times' quickly fell in line as the New Labour house journal.

I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young!

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

I'm not trying to be the younger, blonder version of anyone. I'm trying to be Tomi.

Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.

I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great.

I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

If you're manager, you're always responsible for the good times and the bad times. Every time you don't win a game you think if you could have done it another way.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

I think it's what the times are demanding. If you're talking about the popular artists, they collaborate with a lot of different people and it seems to be in vogue now. It probably is indicative of the times.

There are times when I surprise myself with the kind of patience I have shown and then there are times when I felt that I could have handled it easily but I made a mountain out of a mole.

I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you're trying to be a working actor.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.

I have progressed. I have worked a lot in front of goal, trying to keep a cool head, trying not to force things.

The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.

It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith is revealed only when we serve and trust God in the hard times, the times of suffering, loss, and opposition. That's the kind of faith that makes the world sit up and take notice.

I've died 3 times, I've been shot in the back, stabbed once in my arm, stabbed 2 times in my back, run over by a truck, been poisoned, broke both of my arms, nose (3 times broken), ribs, both legs, but a broken heart hurt me the most.

On one-on-one, I'm either trying to get the first down or trying to score.

Two to four classes each offseason - just trying to chip away. There are times when I think, 'Man, I don't need to be doing this. Why am I doing this to myself?' But to fight through that and come out and make a good grade, it feels worth it. Hopefully something good comes out of it one day.

It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That's great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness.

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!

Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.

I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in.

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

There are always good times and bad times.